all the random nods to batman, despite bruce being 10 years too young to actually be batman. someone commented somewhere else it would have been more interesting if they'd killed bruce wayne along with the parents, and have an all new plot line, without the shadow of batman over the series.

in the "canon" timeline is around 18 at the youngest (when he gets access to the Wayne fortune) and in this he looks around 10. that's a whole lot of TV to go through before your Bruce Wayne is old enough to be batman

- people aren't going to watch a show set in Gotham about not-Batman
- people watch shit shows all the time
- making a show set in gotham about gordon is like setting a show in Metropolis about Jimmy Olsen at college. they've got their work cut out for them when they're focusing on something that isn't what *most* people want to watch*

*and i say this because i can see that they lack confidence in the idea. it'd be more interesting if it were actually something different; like i said up there, that bruce was killed, or below that his parents weren't, but instead we are going to focus on something that is oddly inert, and the constant reminders that Batman WILL exist kinda takes the jeopardy out of the series.

that said the first episode should end with the Waynes leaving the opera, a mugger pouncing on them, but NOT killing them, so that for the rest of the run you have this ticking clock running, waiting for them to be killed.

The whole thing sounds silly to introduce basically everyone in the rogues gallery, they should have used the pre-Batman stuff to come up with new things, with rare and meaningful allusions to the big names that would come up later.

sandy just chilling out somewhere with a surfboard...oh man sandy was so cool, i used to wish my dad was as fly as sandy, and that he would come home from work and then ask if i wanted to go out surfing with him, instead he just came home, cracked open a packet of peanuts and sat down in front of the tv :(

"Good afternoon doctor, how's the research going?"
"Ice to see you!"
"...I'm sorry?"
"I'm afraid my research is getting something of a..frosty reception!"
"Why are you talking like that?"
"There's no business like snow business!"
"You're a fucking weirdo Fries."